On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:34:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:44:00AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > I'd rather we stopped looking at policy as "mandating things". > > > There are three things policy's trying to do at the moment: > > > > 1) specify technical standards, like version formats and package > > names > > > > 2) specify packaging and coding best practices > > > > 3) specify release requirements > > I agree. However, the language used in the Policy Manual, and the > organization of the manual itself (or lack thereof) is not necessarily > appropriate for all of these issues. > > The document is right now used to mandate things, and obviously this > creates problems when some things shouldn't be handled in that manner. > I filed several bugs about it, not all of which are resolved yet...
For whatever it's worth... As the remaining Policy editor -- though I admit I have been badly itinerant for the past several months -- I guess I should weigh in. I feel basically about policy as I expressed in the logs of bug #97671[1]. In my opinion the current dispute is basically a re-hash of the meta-discussions that cropped up while that bug took a trip to the Technical Committee. In my opinion, the role of the Policy Manual is: 1) Yes, to specify technical standards, like version formats and package names. 2) Possibly to specify packaging and coding best practices. These should *either* be in the Policy Manual appendices, or in a separate document. 3) *NOT* to specify release requirements. That should be a document under the control of the Release Manager DPL delegate, and of course that responsibility can be shared with whomever he sees fit (as mutually agreed upon). [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=97671 (scroll down about 25% and start reading). -- G. Branden Robinson | Convictions are more dangerous Debian GNU/Linux | enemies of truth than lies. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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